Eminem sends Mother's Day message with new video for Headlights

Eminem's Mother's Day video is an apology to his mother, albeit an angry and profanity-laced one. Photo via YouTube

Editor’s Note: The embedded video contains explicit language.

Eminem chose Mother’s Day as the appropriate release date for his latest video, “Headlights.”

The Spike Lee-directed explitive-heavy video, filmed in Detroit during early April, is the Oakland County-based rapper’s moving apology to his mother, Debbie Mathers, for years of turmoil in their relationship and for the caustic remarks he’s made about her in past songs. The four-minute clip features many actual photos and some video from Eminem’s real name (Marshall Mathers III) youth as he writes her a letter and depicts the two reconciling with a hug outside his gated home.

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“Headlights” is the latest video from “The Marshall Mathers LP 2,” which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in November and has sold nearly 4 million copies worldwide. The song was co-written by Nate Ruess of the band fun., who also sings the chorus.

Eminem is preparing for a series of live shows this summer, starting July 11-12 at Wembley Stadium in London and including the six-date Monster Tour with Rihanna whose Aug. 22-23 stops at Detroit’s Comerica Park are sold out.